The Geography of Slavery

Virginia Gazette or American Advertiser (Hayes),
Richmond, October 16, 1784.

FIFTEEN POUNDS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber, about the 15th of August last, a mulatto man slave named JACK, but was called Patterson when a boy, about 40 years old, 5 feet 4 or 5 inches high, his beard grows up his temples, which he generally wears long; he turns his toes rather out as he walks, a carpenter and cooper by trade, and carried some of his tools away with him; he is a sensible crafty fellow, and I expect will change his name; he has a forged pass to pass for a free man, and was heard to say, since he ran away, that he never intended to serve any person as a slave again; he can read print tolerably well, and pretends to much religion; as to his cloathes it is uncertain, as he carried different kinds away with him. I heard of him in my neighbourhood about two or three weeks ago. HENRY MACON.

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